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Data Protection Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR)

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India Passes New Data Protection Legislation

After several years of debate, India has passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 (DPDPA), an overhaul of the country’s data protection regime that will require employers operating in India to take stock of...more

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Global Cross Border Privacy Rules and the new initiatives to support data free flow with trust

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ust over a year ago, on 21 April 2022, the seven economies (Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA) participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border...more

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Data Protection Professionals Like it Hot: 7 Hot Topics and Trends in Data Privacy Today

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Please take note! 1.SchremsII and cross border transfers: Risk based, wherefore art thou? With the Google Analytics, Google Fonts, Amazon AWS, Google Workspace other cases, the SchremsII and DPA guidance is piling up....more

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Formation of CBPR Forum Signals Continued Movement

As we have written in the past, APEC’s Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) program is intended to help companies more easily transfer personal data across borders. Participating companies complete self-assessments and...more

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New Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum established by APEC CBPR members

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On 21 April 2022, seven economies participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) System announced the launch of the Global CBPR Forum to facilitate multinational cooperation in...more

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Data Protection Challenges in M&A Transactions in China

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The regulatory landscape in China around data protection and flows continues to develop. Since the 2017 Cybersecurity Law, China has been refining the legal and regulatory framework for data protection—it has implemented new...more

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A “Step Back Overall” for Privacy

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Federal Privacy Commissioner Calls for Stronger Privacy Protections in Bill C-11 - In November 2020, the federal government tabled Bill C-11, the proposed new private-sector privacy law that would replace the current...more

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The EC publishes an inception impact assessment for the proposal of a European Health Data Space

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The European Commission has published an inception impact assessment for a potential legislative proposal establishing a European Health Data Space. In its document, the European Commission identifies the problems currently...more

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Spain Urges Continent-Wide Approach To Cross-Border Transfers

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After a number of data protection authorities issued statements demonstrating differing approaches to cross-border transfers to the U.S. in the wake of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s decision in Schrems II (e.g....more

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Hogan Lovells Asia Pacific Data Protection and Cyber Security Guide 2020

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It is no overstatement to say that 2019 saw a torrid pace of development of Asia-Pacific region data protection and cybersecurity laws. Such was the rate and complexity of change that it is not straightforward to distil...more

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Hong Kong’s Reform of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “PDPO”): Bridging Troubled Waters

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On Monday 20 January, the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau (“CMAB”), jointly with the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (“PCPD”), presented a paper outlining topics for review of the PDPO to the members of the...more

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Singapore Appoints Its First Ever Accountability Agent Under the CBPR System

On July 23, 2019, APEC issued a press release announcing Singapore’s appointment of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) as its accountability agent. Singapore joined the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR)...more

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Asia Pacific Data Protection and Cyber Security Guide 2018 - Shifting landscapes across the Asia-Pacific region

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As global focus on data protection and cyber security law and regulation continues to increase, the Asia-Pacific region is increasingly an area of concern for global compliance programs. ...more

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South Korea Joins APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules System

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On Monday, June 12, South Korea became the latest country approved to officially join the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system. It is the fifth APEC economy to participate in...more

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FTC resolves allegations against three U.S. based companies involving misrepresentations of International Privacy Program...

Privacy laws in Asia-Pacific countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore restrict the export of personal information except when the exporter meets certain qualifying conditions. One qualifying condition is...more

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Asia Pacific Data Protection and Cyber Security Guide 2017

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2016 was an eventful year in the Asia-Pacific region, as data protection and cyber security issues increasingly feature in the news headlines in the Asia-Pacific region as they do elsewhere, our annual publication, the 2017...more

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Asia-Pacific Data Flow

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On October 19, the US Department of Commerce and the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan announced their commitment to expand the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR)...more

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